Thermal tides on Pluto

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Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010icar..208..402t&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 208, Issue 1, p. 402-411.

Physics

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Stellar occultations have shown that vertical profiles of density fluctuations in the atmosphere of Pluto typically show wave-like structure with an amplitude of a few percent and vertical wavelengths of a few kilometers. Here we calculate the tidal response of Pluto’s atmosphere to solar-induced sublimation “breathing” from N2 frost patches. Solutions show global-scale wave-like density structure capable of explaining the observations. The atmospheric response is a combination of eastward and westward migrating tides, together with a zonally symmetric mode. Calculated vertical wavelengths and amplitudes are similar to observations.

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